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ESTIMATING SOIL PROPERTIES WITH MID-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY

Revista U.D.C.A Actualidad & Divulgación Científica, 2016
The mid-infrared technique (MIR) can be used to identify and estimate soil properties with high accuracy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of mid-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (MIR) for the estimation of chemical properties of ...
Johana P. Bonett, Jesús H. Camacho-Tamayo, Javier E. Vélez-Sánchez   +2 more
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Site-Specific Multilevel Modeling of Potato Response to Nitrogen Fertilization

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2017
Technologies of precision agriculture, digital soil maps, and meteorological stations provide a minimum data set to guide precision farming operations. However, determining optimal nutrient requirements for potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) crops at subfield
Serge-Étienne Parent, Michaël A. Leblanc, Annie-Claude Parent, Zonlehoua Coulibali, Léon E. Parent   +4 more
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A millennium of arable land use – the long-term impact of tillage and water erosion on landscape-scale carbon dynamics [PDF]

SOIL
In the last decades, soils and their agricultural management have received great scientific and political attention due to their potential to act as a sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2).
L. K. Öttl, F. Wilken, A. Juřicová, A. Juřicová, P. V. G. Batista, P. Fiener   +5 more
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Outcomes of applying a geopedologic approach to soil survey in Iran [PDF]

Desert, 2017
The paper reviews a set of soil surveys carried out in Iran using a geopedologic approach for different surveying aims in different scales. Most of these studies have implemented a similar survey method including the following steps: delineation of ...
N. Toomanian, I. Esfandiarpour Boroujeni
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Pedometric mapping : bridging the gaps between conventional and pedometric approaches

In recent years, digital soil mapping has faced rapid development of new and economic methods, mainly due to the increasing sources of auxiliary maps. The main objective of this research was to develop a methodology for pedometric mapping that can be used to bridge gaps between the mechanistic pedometric and conventional techniques.
openaire   +5 more sources

From Soil Pits to Global Goals: Pedagogical Innovations for a Sustainability-Oriented Soil-Science Curriculum Aligned With the Sustainable Development Goals

Spanish Journal of Soil Science
Soil science stands at a critical juncture, facing both mounting global environmental crises and transformative possibilities in education. This study advocates a bold re-envisioning of soil science pedagogy, aimed at cultivating the inter- and ...
Said Al-Ismaily, Aminat Umarova, Johan Bouma   +2 more
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Spectral data of tropical soils using dry-chemistry techniques (VNIR, XRF, and LIBS): A dataset for soil fertility prediction. [PDF]

Data Brief, 2022
Tavares TR, Molin JP, Nunes LC, Alves EEN, Krug FJ, de Carvalho HWP.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

AutoRA: an innovative algorithm for automatic delineation of reference areas in support of smart soil sampling and digital soil twins

Frontiers in Soil Science
Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) enhances the delivery of soil information but typically requires costly and extensive field data to develop accurate soil prediction models.
Hugo Rodrigues, Hugo Rodrigues, Marcos Bacis Ceddia, Marcos Bacis Ceddia, Gustavo Mattos Vasques, Sabine Grunwald, Ebrahim Babaeian   +6 more
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The possibility of spatial mapping of SOC content in olive groves under integrated production using easy-to-obtain ancillary data in a Mediterranean area. [PDF]

Open Res Eur, 2022
Blanco Velázquez FJ, Shahabi M, Rezaei H, González-Peñaloza F, Shahbazi F, Anaya-Romero M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Identification of Priority Areas for the Control of Soil Erosion and the Influence of Terrain Factors Using RUSLE and GIS in the Caeté River Basin, Brazilian Amazon

Earth
Soil erosion poses a significant global environmental challenge, causing land degradation, deforestation, river siltation, and reduced agricultural productivity. Although the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) has been widely applied in Brazil,
Alessandra dos Santos Santos, João Fernandes da Silva Júnior, Lívia da Silva Santos, Rômulo José Alencar Sobrinho, Eduarda Cavalcante Amorim, Gabriel Siqueira Tavares Fernandes, Elania Freire da Silva, Thieres George Freire da Silva, João L. M. P. de Lima, Alexandre Maniçoba da Rosa Ferraz Jardim   +9 more
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